Gluon is a purpose built sidechain which is designed to avoid the drawbacks of Ethereum – Congestion and Gas – and the issues of UTXO based plasma sidechains. Gluon which utilizes rollups in a novel fashion originally was designed for high-speed trading without custodial risks. Gluon creates efficient, small rollups (using Merkel Root) to utilize the fundamental security advantages of the Ethereum main chain.